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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language, Ethnic Group and Sex of Head of Household (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 04/04/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/9073

Last updated 17 days ago (23 Aug 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageEthnicGroupandSexofHeadofHouseholdCensusofPopulation2000.csv (13 rows, 1.6 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Males
Text
(Chinese) Females
Text
(Malays) Total
Text
(Malays) Males
Text
(Malays) Females
Text
(Indians) Total
Text
(Indians) Males
Text
(Indians) Females
Text
(Others) Total
Text
(Others) Males
Text
(Others) Females
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)15.4%
(Null)15.4%
(Null)23.1%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)30.8%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)38.5%
Total828887709726119161648849554678941711036438985613787656985605396451069791391558
English201571178321232501613211436681765384407238120223824205573268798668581128
Mandarin2812162508443037228096325063730327403555151na16212141
Chinese Dialects204322158537457862040761583334574336315817651299633
Hokkien9605075324207269594975245207042727na4141na331122
Teochew4117131777939441117317249394nanana2525na2828na
Cantonese515213956611955514293949411934105515105685711
Other Chinese Dialects1558111869371215581118693712nanananananananana
Malay10517690915142601697136832994915824081250869575819113816071321286
Indian Languages3471529473524216115906624345262931352148383na
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_00ee410b88abfc699a2668904197c45d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Households by Predominant Household Language, Ethnic Group and Sex of Head of Household (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_00ee410b88abfc699a2668904197c45d/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)